GREAT BRITAIN: The Great Queue

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All over the Commonwealth, men & women who honored Britain's dead King observed two minutes of silence. Buses halted; miners stopped work at coal faces; passengers in British planes stood up. As Union Jacks fluttered to full staff once more, a tweedy British lady drew her breath in a quick sigh. "There," she announced, starting briskly for home, "the flags are up again. Life must go on."

* The warm wartime friendship Ike shared with King George was continued in an exchange of personal letters between the two in the last two months.

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